He was also pro-slavery, but only for smart women. Many times, it was reported he owned women with facts and logic. Why he only wanted women with those qualities is unknown.

A 144hz monitor has been the biggest upgrade to my computer since switching from an HDD to a SSD. It’s that big of a difference.

Rogue One came out 9 years ago

Better ban the ocean then. I heard millions of people decide to go swimming in it every day and some of them drown.

Do you… Not know what Hunt is?

Yea, Israel is pretty shitty and terrible. Still a country.

Even in that comment chain, it references that Jordan signed a peace treaty with them. So at one point they did, in fact, recognize it as a country.

They have a seat at the UN. They have passports recognized by every developed nation. They have treaties and engage in international trade with other nations. They fit every definition of a country. They are, in fact, a country.

Once again, just because you don’t like them and think they shouldn’t exist, doesn’t change their status as a country. I personally don’t like North Korea, but I don’t go around claiming it’s not a real country, because that would be a fucking stupid claim to make.

Well that’s just fucking stupid. The world has accepted Israel as a country for almost 80 years. You can hate them, you can say they never should have existed in the first place, but they are an actual country that actually exists. Even if they get completely wiped out and destroyed, every history book will still start out with “Israel was a country…”.

Pretending like they aren’t a country by putting quotes around their name comes across as extremely childish. Like a little kid who’s angry at their parents so they start calling them by their first name instead of “mom and dad”. Doesn’t matter how awful they are, doesn’t matter how much the child stomps their feet or what they say, it doesn’t even matter if they emancipate themselves later and legally change their name. Nothing will change the fact that they are the child’s, actual, literal parents.

If the author is really trying to pettily claim Israel isn’t a country by putting quotes around their name, then that’s just shitty journalism relying on personal emotions instead of unbiasedly presenting facts. And yes, I am aware that’s how most journalism is these days, but that doesn’t make it better.

The best way I’ve seen it put; the GOT ending was so bad, it made you feel ashamed for liking the show in the first place.

Not during locktober they’re not

Why would I buy this?

I can only think of one reason, because it’s the game your friends are playing.

You have two choices; buy the shitty game with the understanding that the game itself is not what matters but the time spent playing with your friends. Or, don’t buy the game and spend the next few weeks, or months, not playing with your friends and hope they grow bored of the game soon.

How much money do you think 4chan gets from the UK? I promise it’s not much.

Are you seriously trying to say that if you have a website, no matter where it’s hosted and what you are hosting, you are subject to the laws of EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY that has internet access?

Here’s a text picture of Muhammad lying down: O<–<

Are the admins of lemmy.world now subject to being put to death in Somalia? Under Somali law, that is blasphemy and punishable by death.

This whole conflict has been like watching a video from halfway around the world of a child molester mercilessly punch and kick the unconscious body of a second child molester after he hit the first one in the face. And then having a bunch of people ask “which child molester do you support?” who then get really upset and confused when you say neither, that you consider them both to be monsters, and don’t really care if either, or both, of them die.

Well that’s retarded

I would like to see a random person. Put the entire adult population in a lotto and draw a name. Congrats, that person is now president.

The knee-jerk reaction is to be horrified by this prospect, but I want you to stop and really think about this for a sec. I think we can all admit that most of our leaders/politicians are, to put it mildly, fucking monsters. Those positions attract personalities that fall firmly in the Dark Triad (machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy). And those that are capable of getting themselves elected are pretty much guaranteed to have at least one or more of those traits.

But these traits are relatively rare in your average, everyday person. Although the media tries it’s best to warp our view of the world, individual people are, for the most part, good, decent folks who want to help those around them. It’s practically built into our DNA. The problem is it only takes a small handful of selfish jackasses to ruin things, and our society tends to listen to those that are being the loudest.

By this metric, if you take a random person off the street, you have a higher chance of them being a good person; rather than if you selected from a pool of politicians.

Another benefit to this is the person entering office has zero ties to any company or billionaire. Lobbyists spend billions to ensure that anyone elected is already in the pockets of whatever big industry wants to fund them. By the time someone is elected, it’s already too late as they’ve already had their hands greased and have accepted gifts, officially or unofficially. That’s just the way the game is currently played. But a random person? They can’t bribe someone ahead of time if they don’t know who that person is going to be. Oh sure, I suppose they could try to appease the public as a whole so that your average person already has a positive opinion of them; but would that be such a bad thing?

Is it a perfect system? Hell no. Leaving leadership up to the whims of chance is a dangerous move to make. But is it a better system than the one we have now? I say yes. I truly believe we would be better off with a random person as president than any known politician or talking head.

I’m not? The world population is just a fact. Unless you somehow think India and China don’t have over a billion people each.

By world population, whites ARE a minority.

Assuming everyone lives in a city where the weather is mild, the distances to things are short, there is reliable public transportation, and has significant infrastructure in place for walking/biking. Also assuming that everyone using a car instead of biking/walking is just being lazy, without spending a second to consider the elderly or infirm.

Misinformation is fucking everywhere these days. And when you try to point out the truth, people get angry if it doesn’t match up with their feelings.